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Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'.
John F. Kennedy
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John F. Kennedy
Age: 46 †
Born: 1917
Born: May 29
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
35Th U.S. President
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.
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Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.
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Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.
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Democracy may not be perfect, but at least I don't have to build a wall to keep my people in.
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There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.
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And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.
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Immigration policy should be generous it should be fair it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.
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Be aware of danger-but recognize the opportunity
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There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
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A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
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A tired nation, said David Lloyd George, is a Tory nation, and the United States today cannot afford to be either tired or Tory.
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